To feel 2023 is to listen closely and think on the words of awe, dread, anger, disconnect, loss — and yes, love — that flowed from people directly involved in the world's most recent turns of history.
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A person walks along the Las Vegas Strip devoid of the usual crowds after casinos have been ordered to shut down due to the coronavirus, March 18, 2020, in Las Vegas. Loneliness in America can be deadly. In May 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared it an American epidemic, saying that it takes as deadly a toll as smoking upon the population of the United States.
Dmytro Riznychenko, who took part in the uprising that eventually ousted Ukraine's Moscow-friendly president, visits a memorial to the victims in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. On Nov. 21, Ukraine marks the 10th anniversary of the protests, which lasted for months and led to the deaths of over 100 people.
An aircraft prepares to land as children cheering for the successful landing of India's moon craft Chandrayaan-3, on the moon surface, wave Indian flags at a school near the airport in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug.22, 2023.
Relatives of U.S. citizens that are missing since Saturday's surprise attack by Hamas militants near the Gaza border, in Tel Aviv, Israel attend a news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hadeel Ikhmais, a climate change expert with the Palestinian Authority, speaks to The Associated Press at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Migrant Karina Obando, from Ecuador poses for a portrait in front of the Row Hotel that serves as migrant shelter together with her 3-year-old daughter Maily Caiza on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in New York.
A man carries the body of an earthquake victim in the Besnia village near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
People comfort each other while digging graves for victims of the earthquake, in Ouargane village, near Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force.
Groom Isaac Medina, center, and bride Jazmin Gonzalez, watch an annular solar eclipse, better known as a ring of fire, before the start of their wedding ceremony, in Merida, Mexico, Oct. 14, 2023.
Indigenous Chief Raoni Metuktire, left, and Belgian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux attend a meeting at the ChangeNOW summit in Paris, France, May 27, 2023.
Cydney Wallace poses for a photo in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Cydney Wallace is a Black Jewish woman who recently went on a trip to Israel and the West Bank through a trip called "Black Jerusalem" that was focused on exploring "the sacred geography of Jerusalem through a framework that privileges a Black American and an African lens."
